![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() time and place written United States, early 1990s. If I learned anything with The Virgin Suicides, I just learned if you keep going, you’ll figure out how to shape the thing. genre Coming-of-age novel adolescent memoir elegy mystery love story tragedy. “Each book that you write, you swim a long way from the piers at a certain point-you just don’t know what’s going to happen. Reviewers of Jeffrey Eugenidess first novel, The Virgin Suicides, were quick to single out its unusual first-person plural narrative voice as one of the books most distinctive features.1. (An early installment appeared in the Review’s Winter 1990 issue.) “I wrote two hours every night, and on the weekends I would spend four hours,” he says. What’s more, the novel is set in a wealthy suburb outside of Detroit, which was the primary hub of the nation’sand even the world’sautomobile industry. Today’s featured writer is Jeffrey Eugenides, who discusses his debut novel, The Virgin Suicides, published in 1993. Although it’s never explicitly stated, it’s generally understood that The Virgin Suicides takes place in the 1970s, a time when there were many cultural shifts taking place. Created by the filmmakers Tom Bean, Casey Brooks, and Luke Poling, each video is a portrait of the artist as a beginner-and a look at the creative process, in all its joy, abjection, delusion, and euphoria. Inspired by our famous Writers at Work interviews, “ My First Time” is a series of short videos about how writers got their start. ![]()
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